Help others evaluate weight loss surgery as an option for
treating their morbid obesity -- tell us your story! Learn how to send us your story.
When making a decision about weight loss surgery, the
personal experiences of other patients are sometimes just as
important as scientific publications.
These patients have shared their experience and personal
success stories with us:
Tim Armstrong
For my 25th wedding anniversary, I flew my wife and son
across the country to spend three weeks in Northern California.
We were in the redwood forests, looking at all these great big
old trees, and I had to sit down and rest every 200 feet
because I hurt so much. It drove me to get my act together: I
thought, I’m 46 years old, and I was kidding myself, thinking
someday I would lose all this weight.
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Sharon Sides
I got tired of watching my family enjoy life. I felt like I
was 80 years old. I felt like everybody else was enjoying my
children, everybody else was enjoying the company of my husband
-- except me. And I hated it. I wanted to live again, and I
knew I couldn’t continue to live in this body. So I had to make
a choice.
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Shakira Williams
Many of my relatives are comfortable with being overweight
and at my heaviest I was 280, but I still felt attractive and I
dressed well. My doctor told me that just because I looked a
certain way didn’t mean I was healthy. She really pushed and
pushed. She said, “There’s no point in being cute and
dead.”
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